kkondics
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Q: Keynote with GIF exported to HTML >  gif not playing

I really hope you can help me.

 

I am trying to put together an info data base with cross linked pages, photos and instead of videos I decided to use GIFS to keep the package small.

When I export the Keynote to HTML, the index.html works perfectly with everything, except it does not play the GIFs in Safari, or Chrome or Firefox.

The gif plays fine in the presentation and I tried different ones, none of them like to be played in any browser.

 

Could someone please advise if this is expected behavior? Is there is anything extra I need in order for this to work?

Any extensions in the browser? any specific GIFS? anything in Keynote?

 

Thanks a million!

 

 

Using 10.10.3

Keynote 6.6.1

Safari 9.0.3

iMac, OS X El Capitan (10.11.3)

Posted on Apr 14, 2016 4:24 AM

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Q: Keynote with GIF exported to HTML >  gif not playing

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  • by Gary Scotland,Helpful

    Gary Scotland Gary Scotland Apr 14, 2016 6:34 AM in response to kkondics
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    Apr 14, 2016 6:34 AM in response to kkondics

    Animated GIF files in Keynote won't animate when exported to HTML. Instead use video files in Keynote; m4v or H264 which are a small file size and do work on export to HTML.

  • by OGI-IT,

    OGI-IT OGI-IT Jun 10, 2016 5:56 AM in response to Gary Scotland
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    Jun 10, 2016 5:56 AM in response to Gary Scotland

    I have the same problem too, I can't accept to use m4v or H264 since, for a normal screen recording those are 2x bigger then a good animated gif.

    Another fact is that every browser supports animated gifs, so this is just a simple "feature" of keynotes export...

  • by Gary Scotland,

    Gary Scotland Gary Scotland Jun 10, 2016 6:32 AM in response to OGI-IT
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    Jun 10, 2016 6:32 AM in response to OGI-IT

    I can't accept to use m4v or H264 since, for a normal screen recording those are 2x bigger

     

    Your saying as an example, that a 100 KB,  GIF file being replaced by a 200 KB,  H264 file is unworkable?

    You can't be that short of storage space.

  • by OGI-IT,

    OGI-IT OGI-IT Jun 10, 2016 7:04 AM in response to Gary Scotland
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    Jun 10, 2016 7:04 AM in response to Gary Scotland

    Yes, but the actual values differ: the typical size of the gifs I will need are between 800kB and 1,5MB (screencast 10-20 seconds showing what is happening in an App), so when replacing with m4v we have a size of 1,6 -3MB at least ... and this has to be multiplied by the pages in your presentation typically 20 -50. So it makes a difference if your presentation is 70MB or 150MB. And all of this because someone missed an if statement to display the gif video without video controls just as a simple gif :-)

  • by Gary Scotland,

    Gary Scotland Gary Scotland Jun 10, 2016 8:27 AM in response to OGI-IT
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    Jun 10, 2016 8:27 AM in response to OGI-IT

    So it makes a difference if your presentation is 70MB or 150MB.

    It should make no difference at all,  Macs have access to terabytes of storage, they have very efficient RAM and processors to run the installed applications. In reality 150 MB presentation these days is very small.

     

    What is of far greater concern to me is image quality and technical performance of the presentation, not how many mega bytes a file has.